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just that they have way more important features and fixes to work on. shows wrong prioritisation in my opinion.
Assuming everyone you know isn't already using Signal, I think the most important "feature" for any existing Signal user is getting more users on there. As far as I can tell, lots of people love stories.
They can paint that thing in whatever color they want. I'm still not using a messenger with an algorithm developed next door to the NSA headquarters.
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A little while back I felt this way about 'stickers'. It seemed like a completely unnecessary feature I've never used and designed to achieve parity. Last week I spoke to my 20-something sister and learned that it's basically a must-have for her friend group, who sometimes have entire conversations just with stickers shared in her group. Had no idea, but in hindsight realized I'm no longer tuned in enough to know how…
About once a week I accidentally send a sticker in Signal. It feels like it should be impossible, but somehow my subconscious muscle memory uses those positions for something. But I've never met anyone else with this problem and still haven't figured out how or why I'm doing it, so I can't blame them.
Don't care. They can paint that thing in whatever color they want. I'm still not using a messenger with an algorithm developed next door to the NSA headquarters.
Don't care. They can paint that thing in whatever color they want. I'm still not using a messenger with an algorithm developed next door to the NSA headquarters.
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Same here, moved to Telegram. Still use Signal though (my mother still contacts me there) but the product needs work.
I wish I could disable those big animated emotes; they don’t always reflect what I’m feeling… Also, less super compressed images/videos. I get they have to save space but sheesh they look like garbage
To avoid compression you can send photos as a document.
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It supports backing up to a file that you can't specify. This is unhelpful in many use cases. Example: I am running out of space on my phone. I look, and see Signal is taking 4gb of space. But I would like to preserve a lot of that media. So I buy a mini-SD card and install it in my phone. Yay! Now to turn on Signal chat backups! Oh, but the backups are hardcoded to a location on your primary storage that you can't c…
> So I buy a mini-SD card and install it in my phone. That's probably your answer. I don't know anyone who uses a mini-SD card. The last time I bought a phone no phone I considered had an SD slot.
My gut reaction to this was disappointment that Signal is working on yet another not-messaging feature a la their crypto integration... But the longer I think about it, the more positive I feel. I actually enjoyed using stories on other social media platforms before I left them. The idea of something similar, but end-to-end encrypted, is actually exciting!
I love this! I wish WhatsApp had such a toggle, since nobody in my contacts uses the "Status" feature so I just want to hide it somewhere.
I'm not sure if I'll use it much, but giving me a simple setting to decide for myself makes me much more optimistic towards this.
That's cool but everyone in my family that I convinced to use Signal just stopped using it because it was their default SMS app. Now it's not.
Who uses SMS? I am always surprised when this feature is being mentioned.
but you are right it doesn't have much use for children